From justdave at bugzilla.org Thu Mar 4 09:56:13 2004 From: justdave at bugzilla.org (David Miller) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 04:56:13 -0500 Subject: [ANN] Bugzilla 2.16.5 Released Message-ID: The Bugzilla Team is pleased to announce the release of Bugzilla 2.16.5. 2.16.5 is the latest stable Bugzilla release, and contains fixes to a regression and some compatibility issues in Bugzilla 2.16.4. A complete list of changes is at the end of this email. Be sure to read the latest Bugzilla status report available at http://www.bugzilla.org/status_reports/2004-03-03.html for news of our current developments towards the upcoming 2.18 release. For details on upgrade options and to download 2.16.5, see: http://www.bugzilla.org/download.html . Be sure to read the 2.16.5 release notes located within the release package in docs/rel_notes.txt, or available online at http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/2.16.5/release-notes.html Thanks to everyone who contributed fixes for 2.16.5! Bugs fixed since 2.16.4: - Fix a "used only once" warning that occurred only in perl 5.00503 (bug 231691) - When a user is creating a new account and enters an invalid email address, the error page sent the "Content-type" header twice, causing the second one to be visible at the top of the page. (bug 137121) - An HTML encoding issue which only affected Internet Explorer was corrected in the "Change several bugs at once" page. (bug 181106) - During initial setup, using invalid characters in the administrator password would present an error message stating your password was too long or too short instead of telling you it had invalid characters. (bug 166755) - When a user reset their own password via an emailed token, the new password in the first field would be accepted if the second password field was left blank. (bug 123077) - Reopening bugs from the "change several bugs at once" page now works. (bug 95430) - Fix a regression in xml.cgi caused by the previous bugfix for MySQL SUM() changes. The original fix didn't work properly either. (bug 225474) - No longer use server push with the "Safari" browser, which claims to use the Mozilla layout engine but doesn't. (bug 188712) - Creating a shadow database no longer fails with taint mode errors. (bug 227510) - If you change your cookiepath setting at some stage (because you have moved the directory Bugzilla resides on your webserver), users can have login cookies with the old cookiepath, and their browsers will send multiple logincookies. Bugzilla now uses the first rather than the last in order to get the most specific cookie which will be the correct one. (bug 121419) - Fixed a regression caused by the previous DBD::mysql fixes, that caused older versions of DBD::mysql to break due to not supporting the new DBI syntax. (bug 224815) - Bugzilla no longer sends out invalid dates for cookie expiry. This bug had no known user visible ramifications. (bug 228706) - Update the shadow database parameters description to tell the user about permissions requirements for creating a shadow database. (bug 227513) - Various documentation updates. -- Dave Miller Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System http://www.justdave.net/ http://www.bugzilla.org/ From justdave at bugzilla.org Thu Mar 4 09:56:26 2004 From: justdave at bugzilla.org (David Miller) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 04:56:26 -0500 Subject: [ANN] Bugzilla 2.17.7 Dev Snapshot Released Message-ID: The Bugzilla Team is pleased to announce the posting of Bugzilla 2.17.7, a snapshot of the current development sources from CVS. Bugzilla 2.17.7 is a Development Release and is intended for developers wishing to base large landings or patches on an official bugzilla.org release. It should not be used for production purposes, unless you have a Perl programmer on staff willing to put out any fires that may arise. The vast majority of sites wanting to test or use Bugzilla in production should continue to use version 2.16.5. Bugzilla 2.17.7 can be obtained from http://www.bugzilla.org/download.html . Most of the details on new features and bugfixes, as well as our current progress towards Bugzilla 2.18, are posted in our latest status update, which can be viewed at http://www.bugzilla.org/status_updates/2004-03-03.html -- Dave Miller Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System http://www.justdave.net/ http://www.bugzilla.org/ From justdave at bugzilla.org Thu Mar 4 09:56:34 2004 From: justdave at bugzilla.org (David Miller) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 04:56:34 -0500 Subject: [ANN] bugzilla-submit available for download Message-ID: Bugzilla-submit is now available for download from the Bugzilla download page: http://www.bugzilla.org/download.html#utils The bugzilla-submit engine provides a simple mechanism to post bugs to a Bugzilla instance. It can be invoked through the command line, from other scripts, or integrated with any application that can import and use Python modules. It was written as a back end to Eric Raymond's fedora-submit package (available from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fedora-submit/). Bugzilla-submit requires Python 2.3. Bugzilla-submit is being packaged separately from Bugzilla because, being a client-side tool, it avoids the end-user having to download an entire Bugzilla tarball just for the small script, and also to simplify inclusion in packaging systems that would like to include it as a separate package. -- Dave Miller Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System http://www.justdave.net/ http://www.bugzilla.org/